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I always hope that whenever these ideas get brought up in movies or on TV it’s something all men, myself included, use to look within ourselves. And she paints a portrait not only of William, but of masculinity broadly: the fundamental approach to life that makes it all about the mountains men climb, instead of the damage we cause. It turns out you’re the only one any good at faking it.” She even uses the term gaslighting. She confronts him: “I used to think you were the only one not faking it. It’s not just the loveless marriage, it’s that she suspects all the things that are true, but never said. Her mother’s alcoholism has a root cause, a prison of its own, and his name is William. So we learn this is what has brought Emily to the park, to her father: She wants to understand what is at the heart of why her mother did this.īut there is no stunning surprise at the heart of this matter. And Emily blames herself further for her devotion to trying to get her mom in rehab, which her mom always described as prison. It’s the kind of teenage retort that haunts someone (particularly once we learn that her mother did not throw the box out, but kept it as a painful reminder). Emily tells a story about how her mom once got her a jewelry box for her birthday, “for her little ballerina.” But when Emily threw it back in her face and told her she hadn’t danced in years, she was too drunk to notice. William and Emily have each been blaming themselves for her suicide in their own way. Of course, it begins with the real story of his wife Juliette (Sela Ward!). Watch: How Close Are We To Real-Life Westworld Robots? But here we finally dig into what’s really changed him, and more importantly, how he ultimately deals with the responsibility of the things that haunt him. And if I’m being honest, I don’t know how much his psychological journey has “tracked” to the audience as a progression, but in true Westworld fashion it’s been more teasing bits and pieces of what he’s really dealing with.
All season we have watched him as he pushed us away, became driven, and got caught between playing Ford’s game, being riddled with guilt, wanting to win, and wanting to blow it all to hell.
William, for all his mystery and internal battles, is a character we at once understand, but don’t understand how much he understands about himself (if that makes sense). For he had yet to become the lord of even one.”
And it is a journey best characterized by a famous quote that William hears in the opening, “Alexander wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.” But William informs the man that this quote is actually a corruption of the original (damn telling word choice) and that the Plutarch quote is, in fact, “When Alexander was told there were infinite worlds, he wept. In the penultimate episode of Westworld season two, we have four main characters diving into the depths of their lonesome journeys, at once outward and ever inward.